An appellate court threw out her 2011 conviction and 20-year-sentence because of a mistake during jury selection.

Prosecutors have alleged that Dippolito wanted her husband's $250,000 in savings and their $225,000 town house.

If convicted of solicitation to commit first-degree murder, she could be sentenced up to 20 years.

Dalia Dippolito talks with her attorney Brian Claypool on the first day of her murder-for-hire retrial Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida

Dippolito, 34, was arrested in 2009 in a case featured on the television show Cops and that garnered wide national and local media attention

Prosecutor Craig Williams told jurors in a straightforward, 10-minute opening statement on Wednesday that her own words will show she was serious about having Michael Dippolito killed.

She gave $1,000 to an informant to pay for a gun, and then told a detective posing as a hit man that she wanted her husband dead, Williams said.

A police video shows her offering the apparent hit-man $7,000, and then raising the stakes to $10,000 if he timed the killing after her husband's bank visit.

'What is great about this case is that it is 100 per cent based on Ms. Dippolito's words, actions and intent,' Williams said as the retrial began.

Williams laid out a simple timeline for the jurors, listing events from the alleged death plot's inception to her meeting with the fake hit man to her leaving home the morning her husband was to be killed in a staged robbery.

Just follow the evidence, he told the four-woman, two-man jury.

Dippolito became an internet sensation when hidden cameras from the show Cops captured her crying after officers informed her that her husband was dead. It was later revealed that he was still alive and cops had set up the scene to catch Dippolito's alleged ploy in the act

Dalia Dippolito is pictured with her then-husband, Michael Dippolito

Defense attorney Brian Claypool presented an entirely different picture in his opening, declaring that the wrongdoing was committed by the Boynton Beach Police Department, which he says went 'rogue' and built the case in hopes of finding fame on Cops.

Claypool said detectives never believed she was a threat to her husband, but knew the case would make fantastic television.

It all began when the informant, Mohammed Shihadeh, told detectives about Dippolito's alleged plan just before the show's production crew was to arrive in town.

'They wanted to script a good TV show,' Claypool said. They thought, "Holy mackerel, we are striking gold!"

Audio and video between Dalia Dippolito and Mohamed Shihadeh recorded in a car is played and displayed for the jury on Wednesday

Informant Mohammed Shihadeh (pictured) is seen in this file image

Boynton Beach police officer Alex Mareno testifies about the phone calls he recorded between Dalia Dippolito and Mohamed Shihadeh on Wednesday

'They never carried out a credible investigation in this case. The evidence will show this (perfunctory) investigation had zero — zero — integrity. None,' he said.

Claypool said everything the officers did was made for Cops, which eventually aired the case in a special episode. He urged the jury to view the case through the same lens.

For example, detectives violated department rules by threatening Shihadeh with arrest if he didn't stick with the investigation — all to preserve the case for TV, he said.

Dippolito has testified previously that she, her husband and Shihadeh were working on their own ill-conceived video project, which they planned to post online in hopes of landing them a reality TV show.

She said she too wanted out, but that Shihadeh threatened her and her family if she didn't meet the supposed hit man.

Claypool has said she may not testify this time, but jurors will see plenty of her — not only in the courtroom, but on TV.

Prosecutors showed jurors an undercover video, recorded inside Shihadeh's car, showing Dippolito asking him to find her a hit man.

Video from a hidden camera placed inside a car records Dippolto allegedly agreeing to pay to have her husband killed

From left, attorney Greg Rosenfeld, defendant Dalia Dippolito and attorney Brian Claypool stand as Judge Glenn Kelly calls in the husband of a juror for questioning during jury selection on Tuesday

Shihadeh expresses concern that if her husband is killed, she'll be the suspect. She said she would cover her tracks.

'Nobody's going to be able to point a finger at me,' she said.

Shihadeh and Michael Dippolito, who says he met his ex-wife when he hired her for sex, have denied there was a video project.

Shihadeh also denied threatening her, but says Boynton Beach police did threaten him with arrest if he didn't stick with their investigation. The police have denied that.

Attorney Brian Claypool argues for a change of venue for the Dalia Dippolito case on Tuesday

The jury was chosen over a four-day process that went twice as long as planned because of extensive TV coverage of the case.

On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley rejected several defense requests to move Dippolito's retrial out of Palm Beach County or bring in an out-of-county jury.

Kelley said he believes that the extensive questioning the jurors underwent about their knowledge of the case, their television viewing habits and numerous other topics weeded out those who could not be impartial.

The judge also pointed to several high-profile Florida trials that were held with local juries and deemed fair by appellate courts.